Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[JLW]

Madness this. The Jubilee line will have been packed again this morning

Staggering working hours would help a little to avoid this. Everyone working 9-5 will not stop the hoards of people.

 

[Eggs]

Also, I have a dog and live in a flat with no yard or garden, I have no choice but to take her out 4-5 times a day, I hope I don't get hassled by police.

...my understanding is you can ‘walk or run outside for exercise’, so I think you’ll be fine as long as it’s just you and your dog.

 

[JokerJ]

...my understanding is you can ‘walk or run outside for exercise’, so I think you’ll be fine as long as it’s just you and your dog.

Hopefully mate, I hope people start taking it seriously, I was in a Co-Op yesterday trying to do my distancing and a builder just got in the queue right up my ass, some aren't taking it onboard. I admit, I didn't take it seriously at first but when everything combines it effects everyone.

 

[Toffeeslam]

My place of work has shut as of last night, I'm only part time, gonna feel the strain now, I've been looking for full time work but can't imagine being taken on any time soon. This has turned into a nightmare financially for me. I hope we get some leeway with rent etc.

supermarkets are hiring now to keep up with demands of panic buying, get down the local supermarket to see if they are recruiting mate

 

[JokerJ]

supermarkets are hiring now to keep up with demands of panic buying, get down the local supermarket to see if they are recruiting mate

I have a job, I'm not taking a temporary job or I'll be back at square one again. I also potentially am in higher risk category with diabetes(although I'm not convinced I have it anymore). I have looked on indeed everyday though, things may change if I start to struggle.

 

[ramacca]

There's no point those on BBC Breakfast 'blaming people for going out' when people are being forced to go to work in non essential jobs. The blame lies solely with Johnson's incoherent message. What message is it that says , if you can work from home, if not go to work'. The message is unclear.

 

[ramacca]

That imbecile Gove hasn't a clue about the real world and how it operates. When asked about, people who are being forced to go to work, he replied about accountants. He was crystal clear that the City of London still has to operate. There are millions of non essential workers who are not accountants. London underground is still going to be packed with non essential building workers, banking and finance people and other non essential manual workers.

The only thing the government is saying to shut is the leisure and entertainment sector is closed down.

The message from Gove is Carry on as Normal. No wonder we're up the swanny without a paddle. This incompetent government should be swept away today by a vote of no confidence.

 

[ramacca]

There's a problem - people crowding on the underground, Gove's response 'blah blah', no mention of limiting those that are allowed into each carriage, so there can be social distancing. Yet again, Gove displays how this incompetent and incoherent government hasn't a clue about the real world and cannot see the what needs to be done. Get rid as soon as possible.

 

[Eggs]

That imbecile Gove hasn't a clue about the real world and how it operates. When asked about, people who are being forced to go to work, he replied about accountants. He was crystal clear that the City of London still has to operate. There are millions of non essential workers who are not accountants. London underground is still going to be packed with non essential building workers, banking and finance people and other non essential manual workers.

The only thing the government is saying to shut is the leisure and entertainment sector is closed down.

The message from Gove is Carry on as Normal. No wonder we're up the swanny without a paddle. This incompetent government should be swept away today by a vote of no confidence.

...that would require a majority of recently elected Conservative MPs voting against them which obviously won’t happen.

it will be interesting, though, to see if there’s a surge of real public anger in the coming months, much more than there is now.

 

[orly]

That imbecile Gove hasn't a clue about the real world and how it operates. When asked about, people who are being forced to go to work, he replied about accountants. He was crystal clear that the City of London still has to operate. There are millions of non essential workers who are not accountants. London underground is still going to be packed with non essential building workers, banking and finance people and other non essential manual workers.

The only thing the government is saying to shut is the leisure and entertainment sector is closed down.

The message from Gove is Carry on as Normal. No wonder we're up the swanny without a paddle. This incompetent government should be swept away today by a vote of no confidence.

Not hugely convinced a national election is the best way to enforce a lockdown tbh

 

[orly]

There's a problem - people crowding on the underground, Gove's response 'blah blah', no mention of limiting those that are allowed into each carriage, so there can be social distancing. Yet again, Gove displays how this incompetent and incoherent government hasn't a clue about the real world and cannot see the what needs to be done. Get rid as soon as possible.

On the Tube??? Come on mate. Not realistic. It would be better to just actually have clear legislation. On a construction site or in the City? Not a key worker, stay at home.

 

[Jonte]

There's no point those on BBC Breakfast 'blaming people for going out' when people are being forced to go to work in non essential jobs. The blame lies solely with Johnson's incoherent message. What message is it that says , if you can work from home, if not go to work'. The message is unclear.

Hear, hear. Yes, it is a little ambiguous and I wonder if by design?

My neighbour, a painter and decorator, has just left the house to go to work. As he did yesterday, and will no doubt tomorrow. He told my wife only the other day he has no intention of stopping unless his customers refuse him entry.

Self employed? Yes. He is.

Sole bread winner/ source of income?

Not entirely: his partner is in a profession and they foster more than one child; money cannot be an issue; at this time it shouldn’t be an issue. Is any of this my business? Absolutely.

My daughter is a front-line NHS professional and my wife, a carer who has no choice but to go to work as she has a duty of care to 5 residents.

Both have taken all the advice given very seriously: social distancing and only venturing out when essential (as described).

On Sunday, my daughter arrived at the end of the driveway, on foot having taken the opportunity to walk the couple of miles from her home with her husband for exercise. She left a card and flowers for her mother at the door and then retired to a safe distance onto the driveway. My son did the same when he arrived later.

Meanwhile, miladdo’s family next door, arrived en mass and piled in, flying in the face of all health warnings.

Okay, OTT all this preventative action may seem to many, but the consequences of their defiance/cavalier attitudes towards the measures implemented to protect us all, and which they appear to treat with scorn, may yet prove perilous to those like my own family members who are at the forefront of all this, and whom the irresponsible will eventually turn to if the worst happens.

I shouldn’t, but I just can’t help but get annoyed at the flagrant inconsideration of some in these most dire of times, and who would blame me?

So, unless you really HAVE to go out, please, please, please guys: stay at home.

Thank you.

 

[ramacca]

On the Tube??? Come on mate. Not realistic. It would be better to just actually have clear legislation. On a construction site or in the City? Not a key worker, stay at home.

If social distance is important, as the government keeps saying, then limiting those in a carriage has to be implemented, otherwise its just bluster. How can you work on a building site and have social distancing?

The government have said if you're not a key worker stay at home and do your work at home, except if you work can't work from home. Incoherent message. They don't know their elbow from their backside. This government needs to go for all our safety..

 

[Deleted member 48881]

instead of operator’s name located on upper left of my phone screen it reads ‘stay home’

very orwellian like, necessary of course but still horrifies me for some reason.

 

[orly]

If social distance is important, as the government keeps saying, then limiting those in a carriage has to be implemented, otherwise its just bluster. How can you work on a building site and have social distancing?

The government have said if you're not a key worker stay at home and do your work at home, except if you work can't work from home. Incoherent message. They don't know their elbow from their backside. This government needs to go for all our safety..

It wouldnt work.

Let's say a Tube train is 12 carriages long. It has probably 6 doors - four double and two single door at the end of each section. So to regulate numbers - especially in the morning where the likes of the Jubilee line is rammed with site workers before 730 - you'd need a person on every door to help limit numbers. Nowhere near enough TfL staff for that. Then you would break the network by adding 10-15 seconds a train for this regulated loading service.